I don’t know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense. “Basically in ‘American Pie,’ things are heading in the wrong direction,” he told Christie’s, as the Newcastle Herald reported. It reached no.1 on the Billboard hit chart. What does it all mean? Just what a song about the day the music died seems like it might be about: the end of the American Dream. The song was recorded and included in his album American Pie album in 1971. The song includes references to Karl Marx Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (or, more likely, John Lennon) the Fab Four the Byrds James Dean Charles Manson the Rolling Stones the “widowed bride,” Jackie Kennedy and the Vietnam War. Buddy Holly, in his song Thatll Be the Day, sings, 'Thatll be the day, when you say good bye. American Pie' is a reference to either of those threes wife or a girlfriend. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.”īut what state was that? It seemed like the song’s cast of characters - which include a jester, a king, a queen, good ol’ boys drinking whiskey and rye as well as “Miss American Pie” herself - were meant to represent real people. Don from Chicago, Il The part, 'Bye bye Ms. He was specifically referring to songs like Revolution by The Beatles, which was clearly suspicious of violent revolution and uprisings, as well as American Pie by Don McLean. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. They try to do this every step of the way and theyve done it with much of music, Glenn said on radio this moring. “People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity,” McLean said in an early interview, as the Guardian reported.
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